Guest Slidingtrancer Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 Mino - Fly Artist: Mino Title: Fly Label: Transonic Date: 2002 Track listing: 01. Dancing With The Dragon 02. Cyber Sex 03. Supernatural 04. Capsulated 05. Manushki 06. Contagious 07. Fly 08. Psychoacoustica 09. Dancing With The Dragon (Down Tempo Rmx) Review: The long awaited Mino-album has finally arrived. Mino Vaknin has burned our dancefloors with impressive darksounding stompers for some time now and this album is no exception. The whole album is packed with dark noises, some guitartracks and percussion.It starts off with a nice stomping track called ' Dancing With The Dragon' and sends most of us indeed of to the dancefloor. The second track Cyber Sex has some nice layers and production, I had my mouth open the first time I heard it. Dominant in this song are the tweaking and the bassline, nicely packed in some psychedelic mayhem. 'Supernatural' starts of with a nice voice sample and a rolling bassline that continues all through the song, certainly one of the better songs in this pack I'd say. It's kinda repetitive but in the end its captivating and stomping( BTW Nice melody in the end, reminds me a bit of Fractal Glider...somehow). Now 'Capsulated' has a quite different thing going for it, a dark intro let's us enter a steady, wobbly song where all the basics of psychedelica are being forced to breathe in the same room. And luckily, they do....the only thing I have against this is the melody at the end ( I can't remember which song it comes from, but I know I've heard it b4....). Manushki has a nice nametag to it and enforces the stomperitism ( or something like that) on this album. Many people would call the guitarsequences a shame and I admit I thought the same thing in the beginning, but now they seem to sound better.I do think the guitars are a bit too loud, but no floorgrinder by nature would mind I guess. The best part of this song comes in the end, where a nice sequence enters the aural landscape and completes the song. All you guitarhaters BEWARE, there's another guitar track on this one, it's called Contagious and is up next. Well, it starts off with a guitar... ( guess I scared some people off now). This is the most techno-orientated song, which isn't a bad thing I guess. This song has a lot going for it, dark atmosphere, techno'y style, psychedelica thrown in from all angles and a nice lead ...... b4 the guitar comes in. ( there I threw some die-hard guitarhaters back). Well enough contagious behavior, 'Fly' is up next, which I think is the best... Why? ... Well just listen... ( I guess no-one will read this far anyway). Psychoacoustica is the worst track IMHO, it leaves a lot to be desired...it has a nice intro to it I must say, but it doesn't really captivate me, maybe after a few more listens it would... ok NO COMMENT on that song then..hehe. The last song is another jewel, downtempo remix of ' Dancing With The Dragon'. Those who fear it's just song number one played slowly, its NOT. It has some elements of song 1 and thats it. It completely stands on it's own and I think Miko has done a great job there. Overall, It's one of those albums you just hate or love I guess,.,,, and I love it... 9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 This album features some real stormers, my favorite is Dancing With the Dragon. maybe I just need to dig in deeper into it, to get my full view of it. Mino, you are doing a great job, keep it up ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest I hate AG Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 nice album by mino 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xymaths Posted June 20, 2002 Share Posted June 20, 2002 Well my opinion is that it is way too percussive, I mean there are some tasty Tim Shuldt melodies in here BUT the production sux, the only thing you can here is the percussion which makes it sound all like Chrome-Etnica. Could have been a great release. Don't dig those 97/98 Sunproject guitars either. 6.5 /10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 hrmm....the mastering on this album wasn´t nearly as good as the last album...and the trax were not even close to as good as in the last album... some kool moods and grooves but that´s it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fergus Posted October 4, 2002 Share Posted October 4, 2002 Sorry my review was a typical kneejerk reaction! After having given this a few decent listens I can say that tracks 4,5,6 are absolute killers- good one Mino!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Not a bad album but not even that good too...I was expecting a bit more stronger progression in tracks and some of them do seem to get a bit too monotonous...Anyway, there are some good tracks : SUPERNATURAL ( ! ), CAPSULATED, PSYCHOACUSTICA, DANCING WITH DRAGON...6.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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